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Nov 7, 2024 | 
blockclubchicago.org | Byron Sigcho-Lopez |Francia Garcia Hernandez
PILSEN — A controversial proposal to expand the tax-increment financing district in Pilsen will likely not be voted on this year, said Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th). The proposed TIF expansion was scheduled for a vote at a City Council Finance Committee meeting in September but was deferred to the following month. In October, a vote on it was again delayed. “We’re going to continue engaging our community, and we’re going to vote when we’re ready,” Sigcho-Lopez said Tuesday.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
blockclubchicago.org | Byron Sigcho-Lopez |Francia Garcia Hernandez
PILSEN — A proposed expansion of Pilsen’s tax-increment financing district has temporarily stalled as a vote on the controversial effort was pushed back at least one month. The City Council’s Committee on Finance deferred a vote on the proposal Monday at the request of Alds. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th), Nicole Lee (11th) and Julia Ramirez (12th), whose wards include a piece of the TIF district.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
news.wttw.com | Byron Sigcho-Lopez |Emily Soto
Some Little Village residents say they’re facing yet another blow to their community. A Starbucks is set to open at the Little Village Plaza — an area once filled with local vendors and businesses before it was sold to developers. Some residents said this is just the beginning of what will lead to gentrification, while others said the community should embrace the investment.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
news.wttw.com | Byron Sigcho-Lopez
The former industrial building at 2241 S. Halsted St. that was converted into the city’s largest shelter. (WTTW News)Officials announced Tuesday they will move 1,200 migrants out of three shelters across Chicago as the crisis that has sent nearly 48,000 men, women and children to the city from the southern border enters a new phase. Shelters in Little Village and in the West Loop will close Oct. 1 and a shelter in Hyde Park will close Oct. 24.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
blockclubchicago.org | Byron Sigcho-Lopez |Rafael Perez
PILSEN — Chicago’s City Council will soon consider expanding Pilsen’s tax-increment financing district, a proposal that has ignited fierce community debate over gentrification, displacement and the economic future of the neighborhood. Community meetings — including one in June — have highlighted deep divisions within the neighborhood regarding the future of Pilsen and the role of the tax-increment financing district in shaping it.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
davidsonian.com | Byron Sigcho-Lopez
A liberal Chicago alderman is voicing dissatisfaction with the Democratic Party while the governor of Illinois considers a possible vice presidential nomination. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker informed CNN that while he might be hesitant to resign from office, he might be open to the idea of running for vice president. “It would be difficult to decline a call and attention if the nominee contacted me to request an¬†evaluation for the vice presidential position,” Pritzker stated on Wednesday.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
streetinsider.com | Byron Sigcho-Lopez
, /PRNewswire/ -- The National Museum of Mexican Art announced it has acquired from the City of Chicago the property at 2358 S. Whipple Street in Little Village, a decommissioned fire station. In October, the City Council approved the $1 sale of the City-owned property to the Museum for redevelopment into a community center for art programming. The fire station was built in 1907 and has been vacant since 2011, when Chicago Fire Department Engine Co. 109 moved into a new facility at 2343 S.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
laraza.com | Byron Sigcho-Lopez
Chicago. – Una manifestación realizada en días recientes en Chicago en el que queman la bandera de Estados Unidos ha levantado controversia, la cual se ha extendido hasta el Concilio Municipal de la ciudad. Los inconformes en el mitin alzaron la voz a favor de Palestina y expresaron su disconformidad sobre la celebración de la Convención Nacional Demócrata a llevarse a cabo en Chicago este verano.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
newsnationnow.com | Byron Sigcho-Lopez |Jeff Arnold
(NewsNation) — A measles outbreak inside Chicago’s largest migrant shelter has residents living in the facility on edge, anxious about potentially getting sick while in reportedly “unlivable” conditions, according to a shelter volunteer. Health officials have reported 53 measles cases in and around Chicago, the majority in the shelter in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. It’s home to 1,256 migrants, according to a city spokesperson.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
news.wttw.com | Byron Sigcho-Lopez
Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez speaks at a special City Council meeting on April 1, 2024. (WTTW News)The Chicago City Council voted 16-29 Monday to reject an effort to punish Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez for speaking at a protest in front of City Hall where an American flag was burned.
